Friday, May 13, 2005

John Bolton, Survivor - Plus, the cowardice of Lincoln Chafee. By Fred Kaplan

"It takes enormous self-deception to believe that John Bolton is truly qualified much less the 'best man' for this job. He has long held the United Nations in contempt. He has disparaged the legitimacy of international law (the basis for enforcing U.N. resolutions). As an undersecretary of state in Bush's first term, he repeatedly sought the removal of intelligence analysts who dared to disagree with him. He was such a loose cannon that Richard Armitage, deputy secretary of state, forbade him to say anything in public without prior approval. A half-dozen officials, most of them Republicans who served in this administration, say that Bolton would make in the words of Colin Powell's chief of staff'an abysmal ambassador.'
Voinovich said today that Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice assured him that Bolton would be firmly supervised in his new job. Voinovich wondered, 'Why in the world would you want to send somebody up to the U.N. that has to be supervised?'"


John Bolton, Survivor - Plus, the cowardice of Lincoln Chafee. By Fred Kaplan

I mistakenly thought it was a story about Michael Bolton and Survivor so I read it. now that I have, I'm wonderin' if John Bolton is the best guy for the job. I don't know much about the subject so basically all the info I have is from this article. leave a comment if you know more either in favor of or against the guy.

1 comment:

Big Red said...

John Bolton is the 'best man' for the job. We don't need a people-pleasing weenie in the UN. We need someone with a pair.

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